Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 60

So they went in and said to Prince Majnun, "An old woman outside says she wants you." "

Who acts: men, Prince, old woman, Laili · What happens: go in, say, want · To what, where: old woman, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Prince, old woman, Laili), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Prince	case
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Prince	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
12	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
15	outside	outside	ADP	_	16 says	mark
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 woman	acl:relcl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wants	nsubj
18	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 says	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 wants	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go in	past	men = man		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Prince	a old woman	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	a old woman not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	want in a quote	present	Laili	you	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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